symmetrix inquiry commands not working

Yes ¿I found old dates for all except syminq ..
Ok it says me it was corrupted on 12th by someone ..but How it was corrupted how do we know
Just because of bad commands ¿what type of commands ..wrong syntax type or some other kind

server1/root: /usr/symcli/bin > ls -lt
total 92112
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root system 0 Dec 12 13:23 syminq
-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 70 Jun 03 2007 ex05_060307.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 70 Jun 03 2007 ex04_060207.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 1 May 21 2007 mail
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root system 1395337 Jul 10 2006 symreplicate
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root system 61726 Jul 10 2006 stordaemon
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root system 745049 Jul 10 2006 symapisrv
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root system 2228979 Jul 10 2006 storssl
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root system 1060770 Jul 10 2006 symerase
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root system 1195517 Jul 10 2006 symhostfs
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root system 1191153 Jul 10 2006 symhost

thank you.....

wrong syntax would not have caused corruption, could be Solution Enabler hickup, human error ..who knows. What did support recommend ? You have not tried re-installing SE have you ?

just now i send that grab output file to support waiting for reply..

see here ..

server1/root: /tmp/emcgrab > ./emcgrab.sh

---------snipped-------

Running Command syminq

***************************** WARNING *****************************
No GateKeepers have been detected. If you choose to continue,
Solutions Enabler will choose a device to communicate with the
Symmetrix. This device may be part of a data volume, and under
heavy I/O may have an impact on your performance.
*******************************************************************

Do you wish to continue (y/n) : n

You have chosen to abort Solutions Enabler commands

-----snipped------------

how it comes it saying no gate keepers on this host ..see sympd list output here 2 of them are 5MB they are gatekeeper devices not hdisks for storage..
because i have 2 volumegroups , in both (lsvg -p XXX) i found all hdisks except these hdisk16 & hdisk17 so those are GK's right host seeing those devices but here I need to name those as gate keeper devices with some command or what

Device Name Directors Device
--------------------------- ------------- -------------------------------------
Cap
Physical Sym SA :P DA :IT Config Attribute Sts (MB)
--------------------------- ------------- -------------------------------------
/dev/rhdisk16 002F 13A:1 16C:D0 2-Way Mir N/Grp'd RW 5
/dev/rhdisk17 0030 13A:1 01B:D0 2-Way Mir N/Grp'd RW 5
/dev/rhdisk18 0222 13A:1 01A:D9 RAID-5 N/Grp'd RW 9281
/dev/rhdisk19 0223 13A:1 16A:D8 RAID-5 N/Grp'd RW 9281

thank you¿

i will give a try..it should work.

thank you so much for all guys posting thier value msgs here .....

have a good one dynamox..

thank you..

-

On previous thread we have a error msg saying gatekeeper devices has problem but today I don¿t have that kind of msgs in log files

See here all hdisks are in volumegroups except 16 & 17 and they are of 5 MB ..how to define them as gatekeepers
Whats the command to define devices as gatekeepers???

server1/root: /usr/symcli/bin > sympd list

Symmetrix ID: 000187431359

Device Name Directors Device
--------------------------- ------------- -------------------------------------
Cap
Physical Sym SA :P DA :IT Config Attribute Sts (MB)
--------------------------- ------------- -------------------------------------

/dev/rhdisk16 002F 13A:1 16C:D0 2-Way Mir N/Grp'd RW 5
/dev/rhdisk17 0030 13A:1 01B:D0 2-Way Mir N/Grp'd RW 5
/dev/rhdisk18 0222 13A:1 01A:D9 RAID-5 N/Grp'd RW 9281
/dev/rhdisk19 0223 13A:1 16A:D8 RAID-5 N/Grp'd RW 9281

server1/root: /usr/symcli/bin > lsvg
rootvg
vgroup2

server1/root: /usr/symcli/bin > lsvg -p rootvg
rootvg:
PV_NAME PV STATE TOTAL PPs FREE PPs FREE DISTRIBUTION
hdisk0 active 537 89 00..00..00..00..89
hdisk1 active 537 105 00..00..00..00..105
hdisk6 active 537 49 00..00..00..00..49
hdisk7 active 537 85 00..00..00..00..85

server1/root: /usr/symcli/bin > lsvg -p vgroup2
sanvg:
PV_NAME PV STATE TOTAL PPs FREE PPs FREE DISTRIBUTION
hdisk18 active 144 11 00..00..00..00..11
hdisk19 active 144 140 29..25..28..29..29

EMC support person seems new like me to Symmetrix tech....he said me to wait till Monday ..

and on *nix you would do

symgate define pd /dev/dsk/cXtXdX

in your case /dev/rhdisk16 and /dev/rhdisk17

If you solved your probs and have no further questions, why don't you show us your happynes marking correct/helpful answers ??

Look at the rightmost part of your prompt (also called PS1). The rightmost char is a ">" that is also a "command" .. a command that will render your file empty.
I think that someone corrupted your syminq command with a bad "cut and paste" inside the terminal.

You can try the following:

/----PS1----\
host:/tmp > echo "hello world" > hw.txt
host:/tmp > ls -l hw.txt

Please note the size of the file hw.txt. Now issue the following "command":

/----PS1----\
host:/tmp > > hw.txt
host:/tmp > ls -l hw.txt

Note the new "size" of the file. Have fun reinstalling S.E.

Man¿I am back again with broblem & I have a plan todo something here just confirm me..

server1/root: /usr/symcli/bin > lspv

------snip----
hdisk6 000914579fb9acb4 rootvg active
hdisk16 none None
hdisk17 none None

----snip----

is these devices are not active any problem before defining them as gatekeeper devices but below shows us the devices are for server1

server1/root: /usr/symcli/bin > sympd list

Device Name Directors Device
--------------------------- ------------- -------------------------------------
Cap
Physical Sym SA :P DA :IT Config Attribute Sts (MB)
--------------------------- ------------- -------------------------------------

/dev/rhdisk16 002F 13A:1 16C:D0 2-Way Mir N/Grp'd RW 5
/dev/rhdisk17 0030 13A:1 01B:D0 2-Way Mir N/Grp'd RW 5


here I have to do following steps

symmaskdb backup ¿file XXXXx
symgate define pd /dev/rhdisk16
symgate define pd /dev/rhdisk17
symmask refresh
need to reboot the host ?????

I think this solve my GK device problem right ?? and syminq utility I forgot to say I run that ./inq.aix64_51
At /usr/dir1 not at /usr/symcli/bin path so I need to run that one at /usr/symcli/bin

Is this fix my syminq problems ?

Or only way i can recover from this issue is reinstall SE ??

EMC support asking me to fix myself by suggesting some previous emc solution numbers emc 91997 & some other

Thank you ¿

those symgate commands should solve your symgate issue. You need to run ./inq.aix64_51 from directory where you saved it to. I am afraid you might have to re-install SE or if you have another management station running AIX ..if SE is the same version there ..just copy the file over.

Hi PcTech321



I don't think you have a gk problem ..

I think that a bad cut & paste destroyed your syminq executable. That's it.

First of all fix your Solution Enabler istallation .. You have a broken "syminq" file so please correct it at first .. And send me (delcorno underscore stefano at emc dot com) the number of the SR you opened.

I think that reinstalling S.E. is the first step before talking about GK problems. You need a working S.E. If it's possible, follow dynamox's suggestion to copy a working syminq from another host with the same S.E. version .. Or uninstall and reinstall S.E. on the host.

-s-

Message was edited by:
Stefano Del Corno

I'm pretty curious .. where does the 2 volumes came from ?? They look like good old gatekeepers (small size, 2-way-mir) .. but they are simply "the wrong size" .. They are too big (a GK is usually 2.88 Mb) ..

Is your box a DMX3 ??

no its DMX1000S-M2 .
Even my management wants the same thing ..we need to install new S.E next week..SR is xxxxxxx
Once again thanx guys I learn lot of things in this thread..

-Pctech

Message was edited by:
Julie Gibson - I removed the SR details since Stefano has them now

was this fixed by now?

5MB sized GK are normal..I do have a few with 5MB and others with 3MB.